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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in elearning technology enable people all around the world to take courses online. These MOOC classes are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Canvas Network to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education endeavours. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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